RICE BOWL DOWN HILL
Drifting and Bobbing
 | Be in the bowl when it's floating in the pool |
 | Fall into the water |
 | Rocks on the slope may act as a hazard |
The contestant sits in a giant bowl at the top of a wet slope. Two guards at the top of the hill (usually Popcorn) push the bowl down it, towards a pool at the bottom.
The contestant has to stay balanced inside the bowl as it slides down the hill and hits the water at the bottom. If they are still inside when the bowl ends up floating in the pool they win the game.
Played
24
times; in episodes:
50, 52, 55, 57, 59, 60, 62, 66, 67, 90, 94, 96, 98, 102, 103, 106, 107, 109, 111, 116, 124-126, 130
BGM:
"Good Luck" - Super Trick -O- by Shigeki Watanabe
| • | Popcorn chant "donbura donbura donbura" and the contestants respond with a chant of "kokko kokko kokko". "Donbura kokko" is Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound of floating and bobbing in water. |
| • | In the family and couples episodes, the pairs sit in the bowl together. |
| • | The bowls were originally coloured red outside and black on the inside. From episode 102 the design changed to white with blue stripes. |
| • | In episode 130, the game was played on the set of "Ever Victorious" - the Taiwanese version of Takeshi's Castle - where the hill is much steeper than the original. |